The modern American couple starts life with a heavy financial burden: In a big city like Chicago, the average wedding costs between $22,500 and $37,500. Yet in the 1930s, it was cheap, costing around $400. There’s no question that wedding prices are out of control. What went wrong?
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The idea of Father’s Day was conceived slightly more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while she listened to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, a widowed Civil War veteran who was left to raise his six children on a
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The bean counters at Fast Company did the math on Dad’s holiday. 100th anniversary of the first observance in 1910. There are approximately 66,000,000 FATHERS in the U.S. Consumers spent an average of $91 on Father’s Day in 2009. One in Four dads spend less than an hour with their kids each day. Thirty-eight percent
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According to Studio5.com, the pillow tie was invented by BYU student Thomas Brown as a project for an entrepreneur class. His idea soon blossomed into an online company where people could order these funny, yet practical gifts. The tie inflates quickly and easily via a small opening on the backside to become a comfortable pillow.
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According to The Christian Science Monitor, there are plenty of signs these days pointing towards a slow, tepid recovery. Here’s a more hopeful indicator — the Father’s Day factor. The average adult will shell out $94.32 in Father’s Day gifts this year, up from $90.89 in 2009 according to a National Retail Federation (NRF) survey
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Anne Marie Fantin has always worried about what type of jobs her son would be able to get once he was finished with school. Eric, who is disabled, has found his calling in lawn care and his mom is doing what she can to help back him up reports The Windsor Star. Eric, who turns
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 Open Forum: When done well, a lasting family business can be a great experience. Not just for both the family members involved, but also the clients doing business with the company. Parents, children, siblings and several generations of family together can create a powerfully successful business model. One of the main concerns with running
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Three words can best describe Angela and Karen Samuels and the business they run together. Those words are Sexy Bolder You, reports thestar.com. The words are displayed prominently in Voluptuous, a chain of stores in Toronto that sells trendy fashions in sizes 12 to 20 and is owned and operated by the sisters. But what
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The Florida-Times Union: When Susan Miller risked everything to help her son launch Bold City Brewery from the ground up in Jacksonville, she admits she didn’t even know if his beer was any good. She took a big risk when she quit her job and helped finance her son’s dream here. It wasn’t out of
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